The Research About Ancient Chinese Clan And Subject Consciousness

The social basis of our nation originates from a community which is clan-unit, the biggest feature of this organization the extending blood ties. Therefore, the conjunction with the relationship between monarch and subjects and the interpersonal relations of Confucian culture, thus gradually forming blood culture and a set of rules and norms of family, and this mainly depends on the means and functions of family education within political socialization. Its purpose is to cultivate piety at home internal and external political and social body loyal to the king. Clan is the expanded family with political power and ritual functions. The element of existing organization is blood and the member of the clan which has common ancestor constitute a unique lineage of blood culture carrier. This kind of kinship as a link properties are collectively referred to as patriarchy clan system. Within the process which the consciousness of clan are turn into the subjects of consciousness at a political level, the blood, which as a factor affecting family consciousness, is playing a great influence.Due to the unique political structure of ancient family and state, so in order to consolidate the political power of the country’s political status and autocratic power of king, the king use clan as the primary basis of social and political consciousness communication, integrating blood cultural into the monarchy system. At the political level, the subjects are still in family-based when carry out political activities, treating the monarch as parents with diligence etiquette. Therefore, the communication between state and family as well as the political system of political ethics led to the consciousness of subject based in father-son and subjects-monarch. Dissemination process Subject Consciousness is known as a political socialization. From the perspective of the clan, Chinese ancient political socialization approaches mainly including clan education, within the family wrote books, etiquette and ritual folk control activities. Through these means of political socialization has been developed, and then act on the political system and political order. These functions included maintenance of the organizational order and inheritance of family discipline and rules. Through a certain way, political socialization thus reflecting the corresponding function, finally, laid the subjects of consciousness continue to evolving and developing under the clan environment.In the clan, each member has a different membership status. This subjection is the dependent relationship, thereby forming a patriarchal interwoven network link. Everyone under the top political body constitutes this unique political network. Children rely on feather, wives rely on husband, members rely on patriarch and subjects rely on the king. Thus the clan society, everyone is not as an individual alone exists among the political basis, but affiliate in the political society. On the one hand, such affiliated political structures make the political system and the power structure go firm, on the other hand, it also created the subjects lacking awareness of individual in the clan culture. And in this sense of constraints of ideas, subjects lacking awareness of the rights and even don’t know what is rights. It exists a strict hierarchy between people, the idea of hierarchy also make a considerable alienation distance between people. Social status awareness is inherited from generation to generation. It will also lead to political indifference of relative majority in the society.In the context of modernization, consciousness of subjects in the feudal society are combined with Western citizenship theory in modern society, in the direction of modern civic culture, is forming the unique characteristics of the Chinese democratic political culture, including:hard friendliness, dedication, discipline, thrift, helpfulness, etc. The new type of socialist progress ethical consciousness and the era of subject consciousness have gone. The exclusivity of the subject culture will be overthrown by the impact of pluralistic culture in the modern society. But the emphasis on education and training of personnel has been an important strategy for national development. The main goal of modern education is to train high-quality personnel, to provide reserve forces for national development. In general, to be conscious of those secular subjects, including loyalty and forgiveness, filial piety, love and other consciousness, not only in the social life in the future by people as universal adherence to ethical codes of conduct, and under the modern industrial society and the business model, it can play a very great role in progress. Furthermore it also provides the possibility to create political democracy, economic development and harmonious society.